References On Neoliberal Order

20 Questions on Investing in China 1. What are the basic laws and regulations
encouraging overseas investors to invest in China?

In order to create a congenial investment environment and to encourage overseas
firms to invest in China, China has gradually set up a relatively complete
legal system. In 1979 the National People's Congress issued The Law of the
People's Republic of China on Chinese-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures. In the
following 20-odd years, the Chinese government has promulgated and issued
a series of laws and statutes concerning the establishment, operation, termination
and liquidation of foreign-invested enterprises. The main laws and regulations
include the three basic laws - The Law of the People's Republic of China on
Chinese-Foreign Contractual Joint Ventures, and The Law of the People's Republic
of China on Wholly Foreig

A Short History of Neoliberalism By Susan George Conference on Economic Sovereignty
in a Globalising World March 24-26, 1999 The Conference organisers have asked
me for a brief history of neo-liberalism which they title "Twenty Years of
Elite Economics". I'm sorry to tell you that in order to make any sense, I
have to start even further back, some 50 years ago, just after the end of
World War II.

In 1945 or 1950, if you had seriously proposed any of the ideas and policies
in today's standard neo-liberal toolkit, you would have been laughed off the
stage or sent off to the insane asylum. At least in the Western countries,
at that time, everyone was a Keynesian, a social democrat or a social-Christian
democrat or some shade of Marxist. The idea that the market should be allowed
to make major social and political decisions; the idea that the State should
voluntarily reduce its role in the economy, or that corporations should be
given total freedom, that trade unions should be curbed and citizens given
much less rather than more social protection--such ideas were utterly foreign
to the spirit of the time. Even if someone actually agreed with these ideas,
he

Again, this is from a relatively liberal source. Our summary article
begins with such positions but naturally aims to go beyond them.

SAND IN THE WHEELS Contents <http://attac.org> 1- Lessons from Argentina's
debacle Here the IMF made its fatal mistake: It encouraged a contractionary
fiscal policy, the same mistake it had made in East Asia. Fiscal austerity
was supposed to restore confidence. But the numbers in the IMF programme were
fiction; any economist would have predicted that contractionary policies would
incite slow-down, and that budget targets would not be met. Needless to say,
the IMF programme did not fulfil its commitments.

2- Argentine : the IMF strikes again Argentina's current debacle provides
one more lesson regarding the perils of the economic policies pushed on governments
around the globe by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Why does the IMF
continue to promote failed policies? Going beyond denunciation, this article
proposes alternative strategies.

[ Home | 9/11 Webpage] 6). Afghanistan, Turkmenistan Oil and Gas, and the
Projected Pipeline(10/21/01) FLASH: Developing US-Russian Tensions over Central
Asian Oil Eric Margolis argues in the Los Angeles Times on 11/28/01 that "The
Russians have regained influence over Afghanistan, avenged their defeat by
the U.S. in the 1980s war and neatly checkmated the Bush administration, which,
for all its high-tech military power, understands little about Afghanistan.

The U.S. ouster of the Taliban regime also means Pakistan has lost its former
influence over Afghanistan and is now cut off from Central Asia's resources.
So long as the alliance holds power, the U.S. is equally denied access to
the much-coveted Caspian Basin. Russia has regained control of the best potential
pipeline routes. The new Silk Road is destined to become a Russian energy
superhighway.

Argentina and the Fund:From Triumph to Tragedy by Michael Mussa, Senior
FellowInstitute for International EconomicsMarch 25, 2002 Table of
Contents I. Introduction II. What Went Wrong in Argentina III. Down the Road
to Catastrophe IV. Looking Forward for Argentina V. Lessons for the Fund Note:
The author would like to thank his colleagues at the Institute for International
Economics, especially C. Fred Bergsten, Morris Goldstein, Bill Cline, and
Ted Truman, as well as several former colleagues at the International Monetary
Fund, for their useful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. The views
expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute
for International Economics or of the IMF where he served as a member of the
staff from September 1991 through September 2001.

China's Foreign Investment Policies that Contravene WTO Agreements The General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the precursor of the WTO, reached three
agreements relating to the establishment of a global investment mechanism
during the Uruguay Round, which ended in 1994. These are the Agreement on
Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs), Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects
of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), and General Agreement on Trade in
Services (GATS). The inclusion of investment measures in multilateral trade
talks was a major breakthrough of the Uruguay Round as well as an achievement
by GATT in establishing a global investment protection mechanism. This is
the basis of the effects of WTO accession on China's policies on foreign investment.

House of representative report detailing how the "russian mafia"
or rather corrupt remnants of the Stalinist Regime effectively stole most
IMF money going into Russia and transported to Western banks.

CHAPTER 4 THE FUNDAMENTAL FLAWS OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S RUSSIA POLICY
THE TROIKA: Since 1993, U.S.-Russia policy has been administered by Vice President
Al Gore (speaking on the telephone with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, July
24, 1998 from Moscow), Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers (lower left), and
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott (lower right). President Clinton
placed Gore in charge of U.S.-Russia policy in early 1993. Summers, who carried
the Russian aid portfolio in the Treasury Department from the beginning of
the administration, is a long-time proponent of government-to-government lending
programs. Talbott was Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary
of State for the New Independent States before President Clinton nominated
him to become Deputy Secretary of State

Tax Schedules Value－added tax Value－added tax is levied according
to three categories: The formula for computing the value－added tax
is as follows: Individual taxpayers Grade Note: The monthly taxable
amount of income listed in the table refers the balance of foreign personnel’s
monthly income less 4,000 yuan, and the balance of Chinese residents’
monthly income less 800 yuan and 100 yuan, the latter is stipulated as the
fixed amount of various subsidies.

Units and individuals getting income from the transfer of state－owned
land use rights, buildings and their attached facilities shall be taxpayers
of the land appreciation tax.

a) Advantages of FDI&Beginning of FDI in PRC
The key advantages of FDI are that it brings in knowledge of new production
and processes, managerial and marketing expertise, and entrepreneurial skills.
Developing countries liberalized their foreign investment regimes and seek
FDI not just to obtain funds and foreign exchange to make up for resource
gaps. More important, attracting FDI is a dynamic and efficient way
to secure much-needed industrial technology and networks to stimulate domestic
industries, as well as to improve national growth, employment, productivity,
and export performance.

Three Requirements 1) The investing firm must have an ownership advantage
over competitor in the host country. The ownership advantage can arise
from a product or process monopoly, a unique or superior technology, better
knowledge of the market, or better marketing technique. 2) The host country
must possess locational advantages to attract investments. That could
be a large actual or potential domestic market (particularly if market access
is restricted by existing or impending protective barriers), a strategic regional
location, or a cost effective export production base with abundant low-cost
labor, or environmental standards. 3) There must also be an internal advantage
that induces the investing firm to choose direct investment over other arrangement
(production l

The late 20th Century will go down in World history as a period of global
impoverishment marked by the collapse of productive systems in the developing
World, the demise of national institutions and the disintegration of health
and educational programmes.

This "globalisation of poverty" --which has largely reversed the
achievements of post-War decolonisation--, was initiated in the Third World
coinciding with the onslaught of the debt crisis. Since the 1990s, it has
extended its grip to all major regions of the World including North America,
Western Europe, the countries of the former Soviet block and the Newly Industrialised
Countries (NICs) of South East Asia and the Far East.

In the 1990s, local level famines have erupted in Sub-Saharan Africa, South
Asia and parts of Latin America; health clinics and schools have been closed
down, hundreds of millions of children have been denied the right to primary
education. In the Third World, Eastern Europe and the Balkans there has been
a resurgence of infectious diseases including tuberculosis, malaria and cholera.

Add detailing offshore banking services. One of thousands on the net.
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writing.

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Steel constructed nightmares sailing the oceans of the world. Death ships,
the birth child of the "new global economy". Oil spills, running
around, sinking of rust buckets, crews forced to work at low wages that is
when they are paid at all, long hours, death and injury at sea, and sometimes
abandoned without food or water, are we talking about the modern world here?
Yes we are! The nightmare is called "Flag Of Convenience " (FOC)
ships. A growing form of greed upon the oceans that few people outside of
the maritime industry know little about.

But just as often, he says, enforcement of U.S. law is frustrated by complexities
of foreign jurisdictions and venues, as well as by outright lack of cooperation
by foreign governments.

To promote cooperation, the United States shares the proceeds of successful
forfeiture actions with countries that made possible or substantially facilitated
the forfeiture of assets from money laundering, Joseph says.

Ever since the famous book about the Watergate scandal, All the President's
Men, was written, it has become a mantra that, in order to solve a crime,
one must "follow the money." This mantra has been adopted by law enforcement
in the United States. Since the 1970s, we in the U.S. government have emphasized
a three-pronged approach to fighting crime: prosecute the underlying crime,
follow the money trail through money laundering investigations, and forfeit
the proceeds and instrumentalities of the crime. Only by following the money
can the full scope of a crime be discovered and a criminal organization be
destroyed.

NEGOTIATING UNRULY PROBLEMATICS. Gearóid Ó Tuathail, Susan Roberts and Andrew
Herod. Unruly; Not amenable to rule or discipline; ungovernable; turbulent;
disorderly. Oxford English Dictionary. We live in unruly times and, increasingly,
in unruly places and spaces. Throughout the globe at the end of the twentieth
century, a series of unruly and contradictory problematics are working themselves
out across states, nations, economies, environments, and bodies. From the
emergence of integrated global financial systems, the globalization of production,
the rise of planetary networks (Castells 1996), and the de-traditionalization
of identity (Heelas, Lash and Morris 1996), to the collapse of "actually existing
socialism," the end of the Cold War, and the creation of new transnational
institutions, longstanding structural forces and processes are colliding and
converging to produce a fin de millénaire world that is relentlessly compressed
and restlessly dynamic, while also spec

The Sunday's Petroleumworld Opinion Forum:viewpoints on issues in energy
& international politics.

The Venezuelan Armed Forces and the "Chavista revolution" By Anibal RomeroIAEAL-
USB PETROLEUMWORLD Caracas, Dec 29 The turbulent, protracted Venezuelan crisis,
which in fundamental ways continues to intensify, could perhaps be better
understood if we view it asthe result of the unwillingness of a rentier society
and its petro-state tounder take the reforms that might reverse a long, painful
process of decay.

Politics: College Try: Jacob L. Vigdor on why universities should stop encouraging
applicants to take the SATs over and over again Promise Keeper? Tova Wang
on why Trent Lott's new position will allow him to make good on his pledges
to African Americans -- if he meant what he said. Executive Privilege: Robert
Kuttner on the prep-school president's ironic stance on affirmative action.
The Rove Machine Rolls On: Robert Reich explains why Bush's consigliere is
so adept at getting his way. Citizen Bane: The Arabs of East Jerusalem are
only quasi-citizens. Has Israel alienated them at its ow

Anthrax, Anti-Semitism and Anguish In ArgentinaHow Argentinians reacted to
the global "war on terrorism."

Bush Friend ArrestedArgentina: Menem charged with illegal arms trafficking.
Argentina Dirty Money, Big Banksand the Mafia State by Ana Simo FEBRUARY 27,
2001. It has all the ingredients of a best-selling thriller. A fearless, crusading
legislator, execution-style murders at a luxury beach resort, billions in
dirty money, a nosy U.S. Senate subcommittee, a country's tottering economy,
drug cartels, arms dealers, bribes, and even a golf partner of former President
George Bush. It's Argentina's widening money-laundering scandal, now entering
its last and most convoluted chapter.

CAMPAIGN NEWS The United Nations' Earth Charter is coming to a community
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information about the spread of this new age religion in America. Then, urge
your church leaders and any others who might be interested to visit this webpage
and get others involved.

Rubin In UN Finance Panel -- A Case Of Fox Guarding The Henhouse? By Lucy
Komisar

Date: 12-20-00 Criminals -- drug dealers or dictators -- with embarrassing
amounts of cash on hand, or corporations trying to avoid taxation, often use
false fronts in poor countries to "launder" the funds. Major U.S. banks are
heavily involved in this unsavory business, so banker Robert Rubin may face
some interesting questions from the other members of a UN panel intended to
help debtor nations. Lucy Komisar is a freelance journalist who, sponsored
by PNS, spent three months in Russia on a U.S. National Research Council grant
to investigate the impact of offshore bank and corporate secrecy.